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  • 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For developing realspace firstprinciples electronic structure methods with broad applications to materials problems

Overview

Otto F. Sankey is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their academic contributions focus primarily on the development and application of electronic structure methods in materials science.

Sankey received recognition from the American Physical Society in 2000, being named a Fellow for developing real-space first-principles electronic structure methods with broad applications to materials problems.

Their research areas are centered on electronic structure theory as applied to materials, with a particular emphasis on computational methods that facilitate understanding of material properties at the atomic and molecular levels.

Best Publications

  • Reproducible Measurement of Single-Molecule Conductivity

    X. D. Cui;A. Primak;A. Primak;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr

  • Ab initio multicenter tight-binding model for molecular-dynamics simulations and other applications in covalent systems

    Otto F. Sankey;David J. Niklewski

  • Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale: Current Status

    David M. Adams;Louis Brus;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Stephen Creager

  • Electronic structure approach for complex silicas.

    Alexander A. Demkov;José Ortega;Otto F. Sankey;Matthew P. Grumbach

  • Making electrical contacts to molecular monolayers

    X. D. Cui;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr;O. F. Sankey

  • Changes in the Electronic Properties of a Molecule When It Is Wired into a Circuit

    X. D. Cui;A. Primak;A. Primak;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr

  • Low-density framework form of crystalline silicon with a wide optical band gap

    Jan Gryko;Jan Gryko;Paul F. McMillan;Robert F. Marzke;Ganesh K. Ramachandran

  • Complex band structure, decay lengths, and Fermi level alignment in simple molecular electronic systems

    John K. Tomfohr;Otto F. Sankey

  • Wide-band-gap Si in open fourfold-coordinated clathrate structures.

    Gary B. Adams;Michael Okeeffe;Alexander A Demkov;Otto F. Sankey

  • Further developments in the local-orbital density-functional-theory tight-binding method

    James P. Lewis;Kurt R. Glaesemann;Gregory A. Voth;Jürgen Fritsch

  • Multicenter approach to the exchange-correlation interactions in ab initio tight-binding methods

    Pavel Jelínek;Pavel Jelínek;Hao Wang;James P. Lewis;Otto F. Sankey

  • Theoretical study of the lattice thermal conductivity in Ge framework semiconductors.

    Jianjun Dong;Jianjun Dong;Otto F. Sankey;Charles W. Myles

  • Predicted new low energy forms of carbon.

    Michael O’Keeffe;Gary B. Adams;Otto F. Sankey

  • Theoretical analysis of electron transport through organic molecules

    John Tomfohr;Otto F. Sankey

  • Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules

    Gary B. Adams;Otto F. Sankey;John B. Page;Michael O'Keeffe

  • Electronic Signatures of all Four DNA Nucleosides in a Tunneling Gap

    Shuai Chang;Shuo Huang;Jin He;Feng Liang

  • Deep energy levels of defects in the wurtzite semiconductors AIN, CdS, CdSe, ZnS, and ZnO

    Unknown

  • Electronic decay constant of carotenoid polyenes from single-molecule measurements.

    Jin He;Fan Chen;Jun Li;Otto F. Sankey

  • Switching of a photochromic molecule on gold electrodes: single-molecule measurements

    Jin He;Fan Chen;Paul A Liddell;Joakim Andréasson

  • Molecular-dynamics determination of electronic and vibrational spectra, and equilibrium structures of small Si clusters.

    Otto F. Sankey;David J. Niklewski;D. A. Drabold;John D. Dow

  • Maximum entropy approach for linear scaling in the electronic structure problem.

    David A. Drabold;Otto F. Sankey

  • Semiempirical tight-binding band structures of wurtzite semiconductors: AlN, CdS, CdSe, ZnS, and ZnO

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. McMillan
Paul F. McMillan University College London
Alexander A. Demkov
Alexander A. Demkov The University of Texas at Austin
Stuart Lindsay
Stuart Lindsay Arizona State University
David A. Drabold
David A. Drabold Ohio University
Michael O'Keeffe
Michael O'Keeffe Arizona State University
Wolfgang Windl
Wolfgang Windl The Ohio State University
Jose Menendez
Jose Menendez Arizona State University
David K. Ferry
David K. Ferry Arizona State University
Hadis Morkoç
Hadis Morkoç Virginia Commonwealth University
John C. H. Spence
John C. H. Spence Arizona State University

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